Fifty years later, the memory of the “Immaculate Reception” endures for a fan who took his father’s advice and stayed until the end of the game.
The enduring memory for me is the noise. That, and the often forgotten confusion over an obscure N.F.L. rule that almost annulled the “Immaculate Reception.”
The announcement of Franco Harris’s death on Wednesday, just two days before the 50th anniversary of the unforgettable play, calls up a swirl of memories for me, some because I was in the stands at the game, some from having been in the Pittsburgh universe then.